Microchilus pseudobrunnescens Ormerod 2005
TYPE Drawing by Paul Ormerod andHarvard Pap. Bot. 9: 418 fig 33 Ormerod 2005
LATE
EARLY 
Common Name The False M brunnescens Microchilus
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in Napo province of Ecuador at elevations around 1500 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a terete, creeping rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete stem carrying 6, drying warm red-brown, one dry- ing green, obliquely elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 16.12" [40.3 cm] long, peduncle 8.93" [22.3 cm] long, provided with 3, scattered, lowermost subfoliaceous, sheathing bracts, 3 to 4 sterile bracts at the apex of the peduncle, rachis 7.2" [18 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent, brown flowers.
"This species is externally very similar to M brunnescens , but it differs from that plant in having smaller lanceolate (not ovate-lanceolate) floral bracts to .32 x .1" versus .52 x .16" [8 x 2.5 mm vs. 13 x 4 mm), a shorter spur .0804 versus .1" (2.1 vs. 2.5 mm), and slightly narrower labellum hypochile .48 to .6 versus .6 to .72" (1.2-1.5 vs. 1.5-1.8 mm)" Ormerod 2005
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 417 Ormerod 2005
Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 418 fig 33 Ormerod 2005 drawing fide;
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